lina, 11 months ago

warning: long post ahead; probably screenreader unfriendly

i wonder would it be possible to add some sort of "identity servers" to fedi so that, let's say i'm @lina even tho i'm using a mastodon instance hosted elsewhere

could see that as a hierarchy? of keypairs
let's say i use tech.lgbt as my mastodon server, meaning it has generated a keypair, perhaps tech.lgbt/@lina@lina.moe#mainkey
identity server would then sign the public key, so the Actor object would have this?

{  
 // ...  
 "identity": "<https://lina.moe/lina>",  
 "publicKeyPem": {  
 "id": "<https://tech.lgbt/@lina@lina.moe#mainkey>",  
 "publicKeyPem": "...",  
 "signature": "..."  
 }  
}  

and the identity server would be able to verify the signature to say "yes that's lina" or "no she's being impersonated"

please boost so that i get feedback on how weird and impossible this idea is and maybe if someone has actually implemented smth similar before 🥺